SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:51 P.M. ET:

NO DIETICIAN IN CHIEF – President Obama said in an interview that Michelle Obama will not be running for public office.  Thus this nation is once again denied what its founders truly yearned for – a nutritionist as chief of state.  We'll survive, but it will be hard.  Pass the fries.

NEW MOUTHPIECE – Eric Shinseki wasn't the only resignation to be announced in Washington today.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is resigning, to be replaced by his deputy, with the journalistically correct name of Josh Earnest.  (As opposed to Fred Deceitful, who could have gotten the job.)  I know little about Earnest except that he has a longtime association with Barack Obama as a staff member.

NECESSARY – The White House is adding a crisis-control expert to the counsel's office.  From the Daily Caller:  "Jennifer O’Connor, a former partner at WilmerHale who has helped both the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Health and Human Services navigate legal crises, is slated to join the White House Counsel’s Office Friday, the Legal Times reports.  O’Connor served in the Clinton administration during his first term."  I look forward to better, clearer explanations for the administration's disasters.

REVOLUTION IN SACRAMENTO – From CBS:  "SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — New regulations passed by the Sacramento City Council will require taxi drivers in Sacramento to speak English.  The City Council passed new rules requiring drivers have proof of basic English skills, as well as making sure cars are eight years old or newer and that drivers wear professional clothing. The last requirement is a change from the proposed ordinance that required them to be hygienically clean."  I am not making this up.

May 30, 2014